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This information from Woody Leonhard's "Woody's Office Watch" site, which offers tips on how to better manage Microsoft Office products, at http://www.wopr.com/wow/wow.htm 2. SIRCAM BURROWS ITS WAY TO FAME Earlier this week, in a special edition of Woody's Office Tips, I told you about W32/SirCam, the email attachment worm that's using the good services of Outlook to spread randomly selected files and such literary gems as "I hope you like the file that I sendo you". SirCam's main claim to fame - what sets it apart from ILOVEYOU and the like - lies in its ability to propagate via your office or home network. Of course, you're a savvy WOW reader, and you know that you shouldn't open unexpected files attached to email messages. You also know that you should have Windows show you file name extensions (http://www.woodyswatch.com/wowmm/archtemplate.asp?v1-n05 ), and that any message attachment with a name like SalesReport.doc.exe is just begging for you to open it. Might as well pull out that shotgun, bucko, load it, release the safety, and point it right at yer foot. But the rest of the people on your network may not be so smart. There's the rub. All it takes is one person on your network who can't resist the urge to open the attached file. (Or one person who thinks they're smart enough to open the file without getting bitten!) They open the attachment and bingo! If your network permissions are loose - other people have write permission for certain shared folders - that's all it takes for *you* to get infected. No sent email. No opened attachments. As mentioned in Woody's Office Tips earlier this week, there's a very thorough discussion of SirCam and what you can do to avoid getting bitten by it, at http:[log in to unmask] . Well worth reading.